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English to Spanish: Physical anthropology General field: Science
Source text - English El presente estudio aborda la problemática de la reconstrucción paleoecológica en A. afarensis a partir de su patrón de microestriación bucal. Para realizar el estudio se han analizado los restos dentales de 117 especimenes procedentes de yacimientos de Etiopía y Tanzania. Además, se ha incluido una muestra de comparación de varias poblaciones y especies de hominoideos africanos, así como Papio anubis, un cercopitécido de sabana abierta. Los resultados indican que A. afarensis presenta un patrón de microestriación que cae dentro del rango de los hominoideos africanos, pero con un número de estrías totales inferior que al de gorilas y un número de estrías verticales sorprendentemente bajo. P. t. verus, P. t. troglodytes y G. g. gorilla del Camerún son los modelos que mejor explican la variabilidad del patrón de microestriación de A. afarensis. Este australopitecino sería capaz de explotar recursos tróficos tanto de bosques mixtos como de sabana. Se trataría de un típico frugívoro que también consumiría plantas herbáceas de alto valor energético. Durante la época seca, se vería forzado a basar su dieta en fallbacks (como hacen los gorilas y chimpancés actuales). Además, también sería capaz de explotar los recursos de ambientes más abiertos, sabanoides, como P. t. verus y Papio. Finalmente, la falta de correlación entre microestriación y edad geológica y paleoambiente podría indicar que A. afarensis mantuvo una dieta homogénea durante casi un millón de años, a pesar de las fluctuaciones climáticas. Esto podría explicarse ya que A. afarensis sería un buscador activo de alimentos determinados.
Translation - Spanish The present study embraces the reconstruction of A. afarensis’ diet through the study of its buccal dental microwear. Up to 117 specimens from both Ethiopian and Tanzanian sites have been analyzed. A sample of African hominoids has been included as a comparative model for A. afarensis, as well as Papio anubis, a sabanoid cercopithecid. A. afarensis’ buccal microwear pattern falls within the African hominoid range. However, it shows a lower number of total scratches (especially in relation to Gorilla) and a stunning low number of vertical striations. P. t. verus, P. t. troglodytes from Cameroon and G. g. gorilla, also from Cameroon, are the best extant primates model to infer A. afarensis’ paleodiet. Thus, it could exploit efficiently both forest and savanna ecotopes. Its diet would be basically based on fresh ripe fruits and high-energetic herbaceous plants. However, it relied on fallbacks ítems (such as barks, rizmomes, seeds…) during the dry season. In addition to this, it would be able to take advantage of sabanoid resources, as nowadays P. t. verus y Papio do. Finally, the lack of correlation between microwear and geological dating and paleoenvironmental reconstruction could indicate that A. afarensis was an active consumer of some specific items and that it could maintain a more o less homogenous diet during almost one million years.
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Years of experience: 20. Registered at ProZ.com: Nov 2010.
I’m a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Animal Biology - Anthropology at University of Barcelona.
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I did my PhD - http://www.tesisenxarxa.net/TDX-0330107-140708/ - about the dental microwear pattern in Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea primates, by using dental casts obtained in several osteologic collections. The final result was an ecological and foraging ecology model usable for fossil primates, as Dryopithecus or Oreopithecus, as well as hominids.
In 2006 I obtained a postdoctoral fellowship "Beatriu de Pinós" from the "Generalitat de Catalunya", and in 2007 the “Floquet de Neu (Snowflake) 2007” fellowship (Barcelona de Serveis Municipals); both in order to develop a project about feeding ecology and dental microwear variability in Papio cynocephalus from Amboseli (Kenya). In this project I study dental microwear pattern, dental wear, and dental morphology in Amboseli baboons. This population has been widely studied by the “Amboseli Baboon Research Project” - http://www.princeton.edu/~baboon/ , and its teeth research could inform about dental microwear and tooth wear dynamics, as well as its relation to feeding ecology and other ecologic factors.
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